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I like district 13 of Illinois
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Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District 2013-2018, otherwise known as “Goofy Kicking Donald Duck”
Looks like Pluto getting kicked, PETA is getting involved
Yeah, let them finish the job!
Oh wtf I’m part of that district by like a matter of a quarter mile.
In fact, it looks like most people in that district are only in it by about no more than a mile...
He's doing something to Donald... "Help step-anthropomorphic dog-brother, I'm stuck between Pottstown and East Earl!"
Unfortunately (actually fortunately) they've largely fixed the Pennsylvania map so this district no longer exists
Florida’s 3rd district from the 1990s
Holy fuck for a sec there I thought that was a huge lake inside of Florida I had never known anything about. This is insane.
fr fr what a huge canal I previously didn't know existed
Lake Okeechobee?
This is it. This is the worst example of Gerrymandering to exist.
May I introduce to you: The Texas map from the 1990s….. (check the Houston & Dallas districts.)
I’m not surprised, Texas’ districts are still messy to this day
City of Dallas voting districts right now. I’m in the fucked up one, district 2.
here you can zoom in on the picture and see details much better than in that screenshot.
Salamander districts or "Gerrymandering" after Governor Elbridge Gerry + salamander. In 1812 he signed a bill to revise the district map of Massachusetts so that districts where his party was strongest would obtain more seats, while districts under the influence of the opposing parties would have fewer seats.
Due to the Union's prohibition of interfering in local State politics, such an attitude is still copied until now in many States. It is not a constitutional violation - except when the racial basis is noticed since 1995, and even then by a close vote of 5 to 4 in the Supreme Court.
The things are quite complicated.
This. If it wasn’t for gerrymandered districts, the electoral college and voter suppression laws Republicans wouldn’t be able to win outside of the reddest states.
For a second I thought the blue was water and thought to myself, that all seems pretty logical I guess
Even through 2013 you still had parts of Jacksonville, Gainesville, and Orlando all in the same district lmao.
Gerrymandering to the max
Oh the old canal district. 😆
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https://preview.redd.it/dr1i05ohy0s51.jpg?auto=webp&s=c9e292274ad9b091e1aef0604051f7304e7fa683
Oh my god, that's horrendous
That is a work of art
Was that actually a district? I hope not
Marryland 3rd district from 2012-2022…
gerry-meandearing
If the CEO of Reddit saw your comment and was inspired to bring awards back just so he could give it platinum, it would still be underrated.
It used to be.
“Kill….. me….”
I used to live right next to the skinny little section in East Baltimore. We used to joke that you could throw a baseball and have it land on the other side of the district
It's him... Gerry Mander
The 2003-2013 map was not much better
Seems legit.
Sigh
I hate Maryland.
Wtf
Show them District 15. The fun shape that magically curves all the way around the district in your picture. I worked closely with the Dem congressional candidate last campaign cycle. The area is so big, and so ridiculously shaped, we were constantly having to explain to people within different counties that their neighbor across the street was in our district, but they weren't. They drew the lines so ridiculously- even the voters aren't 100% sure what district they are in. Even the candidates couldn't tell you the specific parts of each county their constituents reside. It's Infuriating
Senegal lookin ass
"We have Senegal and The Gambia at home"
LoL
Thank you! This visual was needed to show exactly how freaking gerrymandered it is. Makes me mad looking at it. If you see little "cutouts" they basically removed every single Democtratic population they could. What's left is a district where a Democratic CONGRESSIONAL candidate recieved less than $2000 in support from the Democratic party. The Republican Trump-backed candidate recieved over a million, I think? That election didn't stand a chance. And even the losing party knew it- so they refused to spend money on it. Thanks, Illinois. Fair elections for all...
Worked in the 17th District, same thing with streets happened here. Peoria is a nightmare if you look at the maps, whoever drew the maps needs fired. 😭
Why would they fire them for doing exactly what they asked them to do?
The congressional district reading this :)
Honestly anything in Illinois, maybe the last state with truly cursed gerrymandering
North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas, and Florida: hello
And Maryland.
I hate gerrymandering so much and I hate that the only argument for it is “the other side does it too”.
Edit: I looked it up and indeed Maryland looks much more rational now. I was running off memory of the old maps. Very welcome development.
That one was fixed recently. It's why I didn't include it
Well partsinly it’s still technically gerrymandered. There is more of a democratic sway, and yet there should be two republicans safe republicans districts and one lean R. Yet there’s one safe and a tossup, still better than the original design, but not good enough
Except that IS the legit argument (as dumb as it is). If a state doesn’t have anything to stop it, the party that runs the state will gerrymander away because “they’re doing it in other state where other party dominates” to counter it.
Hear me out;
Gerrymandering is good if my side does it. Actually, it's not gerrymandering; it's just avant garde modern art! /s
Which one in Maryland bothers you?
Until recently, Maryland's 3rd Congressional District looked like this, it was like Sarbanes just circled his friends houses and played connect-the-dots.
I hate gerrymandering, but if the other side is gerrymandering and you're not, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
What needs to happen is strictly enforced national rules against it.
Or, you know, a proportional representation voting system for Congress.
No thanks
As much as I agree with the sentiment, "Being the bigger person" in politics means you lose seats and your legislation never goes through. I agree that something needs to be done, but it has to be a nationwide decision, not a state by state one.
Truth. Or it's "let's play fair, you first'
Maryland was "fixed" but still produced the same results. It's a heavily dem state so the results make sense. But district 6 is still wild to lump in Western MD amd some of the more rural parts of Carrol and Frederick County with the crowded Montgomery County. All the rest generally make sense now.
Idk Wisconsin seems pretty damn tame in comparison
Look at the state legislature elections
All of the really weird looking districts are because legislative districts are trying to following existing political boundries - cities and other municipalities. And that, in general, is a good practice.
It’s like FL. The map looks “clean,” but if you look closely, it’s a pretty vicious gerrymander by the way it packs & cracks dems.
Often the most natural looking district splits will end up packing dems, since it is natural to center districts around major cities when you can, and major cities tend to be blue.
You’d be surprised how much of a difference those small changes make tho.
District 7 is pretty insane when you consider how far away a lot of those cities are from each other. Hudson to Eagle River, Ashland/Bayfield down to Tomah.
I’m no Wisconsin expert, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that that area is probably pretty sparsely populated, which explains the large district
Yeah but the area is so unpopulated the entirety of district 7 is only 12% of the state population wise.
Not exactly related, but when I used to sell Medicare Supplement Insurance, WI was one of the states where you had to learn their particular way of presenting the plan options instead of the way it's standardized federally. Most of my job was trying to help old people make informed, time sensitive decisions regarding medicare supplement coverage, and WI's plans were so much easier to digest for older people, who sure as hell aren't gonna read the giant book that the federal govt sends out, and even if they did they would still have so many questions.
Now I'm wondering how many things WI chooses to do differently than fed govt, for the better.
Wisconsin's districts don't visually look all that crazy.
I want to see now
Home of the Duck Congressional District.
Agreed, but look at that completely “credible” district line… 😆
All those states have extremely normal looking districts though, you’re just mad about the outcomes. Illinois’ districts all look like you put a piece of Chuck through a grinder and tossed it on a map.
Bruh look at Ohios districts and tell me that again
Not comparable to Illinois, though definitely the worst of the Republican states
It's definitely not the last
Hey man I’m from PA, we fixed our gerrymandering
Texas is fucked up
Congressional map of Texas looks like a spider web.
Ohio enters the chat
Chicagos is a shitshow
Ohio is pretty whack
Are you joking? There's a reason Republicans own most/ all purple states
New Jersey says hi
That is absolutely insane to say
Utah is a mess. For years and years. They gerrymandered the blue city Salt Lake City into three parts and put each part with heavily rural areas so that all House Reps will be Republicans. Current map is in the courts again. Sigh. Utah is turning purple in many cities and the powers that be are resisting that with all their might.
Nope. There are plenty of horrendous gerrymanders. IL is just one of the few that heavily favors the Democratic party since it's one of the few states where the party ran the whole show at the time of redistricting and where the borders are under the control of the legislature. Maryland is another example like that.
But I promise you, states like Texas and North Carolina have or hsd absolutely brutal GOP favored gerrymanders.
For example:
In 2022:
In Texas, Republicans won 58% of the states popular vote but captured 65% of the congressional seats.
In Ohio, Republicans won 56% of the states popular vote but captured 66% of the congressional seats.
In Oklahoma, Republicans won 66% of the popular vote but captured 100% of the congressional seats.
Those deltas alone decided control of the house of representatives.
ohio 4 - reminds me vaguely of sid the sloth